[ENH] Proposal to drop contentsOfEntireFile

Lex Spoon lex at cc.gatech.edu
Fri Jun 2 22:00:02 UTC 2000


Woohoo, someone cleaning things up!  Don't forget about #upToEnd, whcih
is another method that does similar stuff.  For consistency, the default
implementation of #contents could even be redefined as "^self reset
upToEnd".


-Lex



Andres Valloud <avalloud at exobox.com> wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> Problem: there's contents in ReadWriteStream, but it doesn't work in
> FileStream because some variables are constantly nil in FileStream. But
> FileStream provides contentsOfEntireFile to solve the problem.
> 
> What do I think about it: polymorphism is broken.
> 
> Proposed solution: rename the method contentsOfEntireFile in FileStream
> to contents, and fix its 48 senders.
> 
> I can do this in a while. But... do you think it's ok?
> 
> Andres.





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